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• TVR Is Back Again—And It Could Go Electric

  13-11-2025 19:54 via motor1.com
  
  A company called Charge Holdings has taken ownership of the TVR name with plans to revive the Griffith with an ‘electrified’ powertrain.
  
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• Zipcar’s demise means people such as me are back in the slow lane – and stuck needing their own costly car | Phineas Finn

  07-12-2025 13:00
  The impending collapse of UK carsharing is an embarrassment for a government attempting to curb the dominance of carsZipcar, the world’s largest carsharing club, is leaving the UK. The company, which operates about 3,000 shared vehicles in Britain, has announced plans to shutter its UK operations at the end of the month. The news comes as a bitter blow to the hundreds of thousands of Britons who regularly rely on carsharing, and is a major setback in efforts to reduce emissions and traffic
  
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• Younger enthusiasts needed to reverse classic market slowdown

  07-12-2025 13:00 via autocar.co.uk
  Historics market hits an all-time high but fears have been raised as momentum tails offThe historic vehicle market is worth more today than it was five years ago but growth is slowing dramatically and more must be done to increase the number of young enthusiasts if it is to survive in the future. 
  That's the warning from the Federation of British Historic Vehicle Clubs (FBHVC), whose annual National Historic Vehicle Survey found that while the market is worth a record £7.3 billion tod
  
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• My £40k Humvee has a 6.5-litre diesel V8 - and it's a fine city car

  07-12-2025 09:00 via autocar.co.uk
  "It's quite wide but nimble, and I can parallel park in one hit," says owner Samuel
  Big, brash and bold, Samuel's V8-powered military-spec Humvee is impossible to miss"I grew up playing with figures like Action Man and not video games, so to own a Humvee like the one he drove is a dream come true," says Samuel Ogunlana.
  Note, it's a Humvee, the US military vehicle – full name High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle that first saw action in 1989 in Operation Just Cause, when the US invad
  
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• Beware the green T: This new sticker signals a doubtful driver

  06-12-2025 16:00 via autocar.co.uk
  Unofficial plate is to let other road users know that a driver is unfamiliar with the areaI still don’t know howI feel about the T-plate. The brainchild of Scottish hotelier Robert Marshall, this is a sticker bearing a large green ‘T’ (and a smaller ‘Tourist’ postscript) that visitors can apply to the back of their car, just like learners do with a red L-plate and new drivers sometimes do with a green L- or P-plate.
  The short of it is that it’s meant to let ot
  
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• This tiny petrol engine is designed to fit in electric cars

  06-12-2025 12:00 via autocar.co.uk
  Horse's four-pot hybrid units fit in a BEV's front motor compartment
  Fifteen months after revealing its plans for 'off-the-shelf' range-extender and hybrid powertrains, Horse Powertrain unveiled its Future Hybrid Powertrain solution earlier this year.
  Available from 2027, the "all-in-one" powertrain is aimed at enabling a vehicle manufacturer to easily convert a BEV platform to a hybrid by replacing a front-mounted BEV drive motor and transmission with a hybrid unit.
  Two different versions are a
  
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• New Mercedes CLA vs Model 3 and MG: Can anyone topple Tesla?

  06-12-2025 08:00 via autocar.co.uk
  Tesla and Merc are the better choices for driver rewards
  Glitzy new CLA aims to railroad updated Tesla and upmarket MGThe compact exec has always been the first choice of company car drivers looking to cut a dash, but the tax-slashing benefits of going electric mean that corporate tastes have changed.
  The Tesla Model 3 has become the user-chooser's first choice, its blend of tech, range, fast charging and rock-bottom tax bills making it a perennial sales chart fixture since it arrived
  
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• Listen: Peugeot CEO's plan to return to the GTi glory days

  06-12-2025 01:00 via autocar.co.uk
  Alain Favey explains how he will rekindle one of the best loved sporting sub brandsPeugeot CEO Alain Favey has a bold plan to put style and driving dynamics back at the heart of the brand.
  Join deputy editor Felix Page at Stellantis's UK headquarters to hear Favey outline why the UK market is so important to Peugeot's EV strategy, how he'll grow its market share in Europe - and how the brand is very literally reinventing the wheel for its next-generation cars.
  He also tells us how Peugeot will r
  
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• UK deliveries of Fiat Grande Panda delayed to March

  05-12-2025 14:35 via autocar.co.uk
  Manufacturer has given priority to left-hand-drive markets in which there is strong demand for the retro superminiUK customer deliveries of the Fiat Grande Panda have been delayed to March 2026, due to outsized demand for left-hand-drive cars in other markets.
  Autocar first drove the retro supermini in February 2025, at which point deliveries had been scheduled to begin in April. 
  That month, the closely related Citroën C3 arrived in UK showrooms (on time), but
  
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• Lotus Esprit Series 1 reimagined with 400bhp V8

  05-12-2025 14:00 via autocar.co.uk
  New £430k "remastering" from Chelmsford-based Encor improves on 1970s original "in almost every way"The Lotus Esprit Series 1 has been reimagined with a redesigned carbonfibre body and a new V8 powertrain by a start-up consisting of former Hethel staff, almost 40 years after the sports car went off sale.
  The new Series 1 has been created by Chelmsford-based Encor, which plans to make 50 examples priced from around £430,000.
  Chief engineer Will Ives said the brief was to “refine
  
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• Tesla launches cheaper version of Model 3 in Europe amid Musk sales backlash

  05-12-2025 11:55
  CEO Elon Musk says lower-cost electric car will reignite demand by appealing to broader range of buyersTesla has launched the lower-priced version of its Model 3 car in Europe in a push to revive sales after a backlash against Elon Musk’s work with Donald Trump and weakening demand for electric vehicles.Musk, the electric car maker’s chief executive, has argued that the cheaper option, launched in the US in October, will reinvigorate demand by appealing to a wider range of buyers. Co
  
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• Toyota's New GT3 Racer Skips the Road Car's Hybrid, Goes Pure V-8

  05-12-2025 09:43 via motor1.com
  
  Beyond the far more aggressive body, the race car also gets a side exhaust.
  
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• Kia previews its future with a wild four-door super-GT concept

  05-12-2025 09:19 via autocar.co.uk
  Vision Meta Turismo splits the difference between saloon and SUV, and previews Kia's next-gen designKia has revealed a rakish, driver-focused saloon car concept to celebrate its 80th anniversary and preview its future.
  The Vision Meta Turismo concept, previewed earlier this week and revealed overnight at an event in Korea, is an edgy, angular, four-seat GT that gives clues as to how the brand will evolve its Opposites United design language.
  It bears little relation to any current Kia model, and
  
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• Tesla Model Y gets £3k price cut as Standard confirmed for UK

  05-12-2025 09:00 via autocar.co.uk
  Entry-level SUV forgoes light bars, panoramic roof and more to bring the price downThe stripped-back Tesla Model Y Standard has been confirmed for the UK, cutting the car’s starting price by £3000 compared with the previous entry-level variant. 
  It starts at £41,990 (or £299 per month on a 36-month lease with a £3588 deposit), more closely aligning the American EV with European rivals such as the Skoda Enyaq (from £39,010). 
  Changes made to reduce th
  
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• Volkswagen ID Cross concept driven: first taste of crucial EV

  05-12-2025 08:00 via autocar.co.uk
  Production ID Cross will arrive next year as the second of VW's wave of affordable EVsThe Volkswagen ID Cross will arrive next year as the second of Wolfsburg’s new wave of affordable compact EVs – and we’ve got hands-on with an early version of the electric crossover.
  Unlike the ID 3, ID 4 and ID 5 EVs, which all share a very similar form language and silhouette, the ID Cross and its ID Polo sibling will get more distinct visual identities from both each other and other VW Gro
  
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• Kia's New Edgy Concept Is a Glimpse Into The Future

  05-12-2025 07:52 via motor1.com
  
  The angular Vision Meta Turismo may not be the Stinger revival we've been hoping for.
  
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• Toyota GR GT Revealed: Twin-Turbo V-8 Muscle Meets a Lightweight Aluminum Frame

  05-12-2025 03:00 via motor1.com
  
  With 640 horsepower on tap, Toyota calls the new GR GT a 'road-legal' race car.
  
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• The Lexus LFA Is Back

  05-12-2025 03:00 via motor1.com
  
  The LFA Concept previews a future Lexus supercar with a battery-electric powertrain. That’s right, it’s electric.
  
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• Official: Lexus LFA name confirmed for upcoming EV supercar

  05-12-2025 03:00 via autocar.co.uk
  Lexus LFA swaps howling atmo V10 for whip-crack EV powertrain in second generation
  Lexus is developing an EV version of Toyota's GR GT supercar, and it's got big, V10-powered shoes to fillLexus has reprised the name of the legendary LFA for an electric supercar based on Toyota's new V8-engined GR GT.
  Toyota's luxury brand revealed its vision of a future BEV super-GT last year at the Pebble Beach show in California and has now confirmed it will take its screaming V10 predecessor's hallowed n
  
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• New Toyota GR GT revealed as 641bhp V8 supercar for 2027

  05-12-2025 03:00 via autocar.co.uk
  Storming 200mph supercar finally heading to showrooms in the next two years to take on AMG GTToyota has finally revealed its new flagship V8 supercar – due on sale in around two years as a storming, 641bhp rival to the Mercedes-AMG GT and Aston Martin Vantage.
  The GR GT – named for Toyota's Gazoo Racing performance division – is described as having been conceived as a "road-legal race car". Indeed, the road-going and GT3-spec racing versions have been revealed simulta
  
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• New Toyota Trademarks Could Hint at Upcoming Sports Cars

  04-12-2025 23:18 via motor1.com
  
  Toyota has been hinting at the car’s return for years.
  
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• Trump: Japan's 'Cute' Kei Cars Are Coming to America

  04-12-2025 18:30 via motor1.com
  
  The Secretary of Transportation has 'cleared the deck' for automakers to build and sell them in America.
  
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• This Toyota Tundra Rock Warrior Build Is OEM-Plus Perfected. We Talked to the Owner

  04-12-2025 16:30 via motor1.com
  
  The owner, Kai, said he wanted a regular cab Tundra Rock Warrior with serious upgrades. So he built it himself.
  
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• 'Haunted' Lamborghini Countach Somehow Drives Itself Into Scottish Castle

  04-12-2025 15:30 via motor1.com
  
  Simon Kidston's 1977 LP400 set off on its own adventure with no one at the wheel. Spooky.
  
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• Want to put the fun back into driving? Get a van

  04-12-2025 15:00 via autocar.co.uk
  There's just something about driving a van that can't be beaten - Matt Saunders explainsThey're not fast, quiet, smooth, desirable or - in many obvious ways, at least - remotely 'nice'.
  They don't have enticing engines or inviting interiors. They're not always easy to fit into a parking space and are hopeless on the supermarket run. Very often they don't even have enough seats. Yet there's something a bit noble - wonderful, even - about driving a van.
  When you're in one, you invariably have a pr
  
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• Pay-per-mile tax on EVs slammed as 'unreasonable' burden on fleets

  04-12-2025 12:33 via autocar.co.uk
  Association of Fleet Professionals urges decision makers to voice concerns as Treasury opens public consultationThe UK government’s low-tech approach to introducing a pay-per-mile tax for electric vehicles (EVs) has come under fire from fleet experts, who warn that it could pose an “unreasonable” administrative burden for operators.
  Announced as part of the 2025 Autumn Budget, electric vehicle excise duty (eVED) will demand an additional 3p per mile from electric car 
  
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• How GM's ownership of Lotus went 'appallingly wrong'

  04-12-2025 12:00 via autocar.co.uk
  In January 1986, General Motors paid £22.75 million for 58% of the Lotus's sharesAfter the death of founder Colin Chapman in 1982, Lotus was in dire straits financially. Thankfully for all us petrolheads, it was saved by British Car Auctions chief David Wickens.
  He quickly recruited more investors and, with Hethel veteran Mike Kimberley remaining as CEO, Lotus returned to profit in 1984. However, the bosses recognised that they couldn’t muster the resources to rejuvenate Lotus&r
  
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• Vauxhall MD Catlin steps down, Stellantis UK boss Druce takes over

  04-12-2025 11:30 via autocar.co.uk
  Catlin began the role in June, but has now left the British car maker for personal reasonsWelcome to Movers and Shakers, an Autocar Business feature covering the latest job moves from across the automotive industry.
  This page is updated regularly with all the biggest transfers, promotions and departures in the sector, covering everything you need to know.
  Name: Steve Catlin
  Company: Vauxhall
  Role: MDVauxhall MD Steve Catlin has stepped down from the role just six months after being appointe
  
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• The Toyota and Lexus Supercars Debut Tonight: Watch the Livestream

  04-12-2025 09:49 via motor1.com
  
  The livestream starts at 9:00 PM Eastern Time.
  
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• The Toyota and Lexus Supercars Debut Tonigh: Watch the Livestream

  04-12-2025 09:49 via motor1.com
  
  The livestream starts at 9:00 PM Eastern Time.
  
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